ABOUT THE COMPANY: This well established business is a true Kiwi success story that continues to go from strength to strength and lead the way in their industry. They offer a good working environment, plenty of flexibility and lots of career progression and upskilling opportunities.
ABOUT THE ROLE: The Product Owner role is key in creating and ensuring delivery to the product vision and ensuring a constructive and positive relationship between IT and the other business units.
RESPONSIBILITIES: This is a busy and varied role in which your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
Collaborating with Technology leads and Solutions Architect to build a product roadmap and long-term vision and strategy for the company’s products.
Working closely with the peers and team members to provide governance and oversight of new features and enhancements.
Develop a deep understanding of customer experience, especially at a tactical and transactional level.
Build and maintain Agile team backlog, with input from customer, Business Analyst, System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders.
Collaborate with Agile team and stakeholders to write user stories and requirements that include acceptance criteria and acceptance tests.
Review and prioritise Agile Team backlog for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners.
Participate in team demo with primary responsibility of reviewing and accepting completed user stories. This includes validation that stories meet acceptance criteria and meets team’s Definition of Done
Participate in Iteration Retrospective, where teams gather to improve their processes.
Work across Agile teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase velocity and quality of the program
ABOUT YOU:
2-3+ years of relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and System Analyst or Architecture/Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment.
2+ years experience in delivering software with Agile Scrum methodologies and other commonly used tools.
Strong requirements elicitation, and proven writing skills including the ability to write concisely and clearly for different audiences.
Experience with Agile backlog/project management tools.
Proven ability to effectively and efficiently communicate with Leadership, technical and non-technical audiences while employing a high degree of collaboration and influence.
Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to identify/analyse/synthesize product use data.
Experience in either the Finance, Insurance or both domains highly desirable.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU:
Good mix of work from home and office
Career progression and upskilling opportunities
Colleagues who are passionate and talented
Supportive leadership
WHAT'S NEXT? Please apply online, or for more information contact Sarah Malcolm on smalcolm@brightspark.io or 027 215 0562
